The Nuclear Muse
Subtitle:  Literature, Physics, and the First Atomic Bombs (Science and Literature)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: August 24, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780299168544
Subjects: Atomic & molecular physics; Impact of science & technology on society; Nuclear power & engineering; Rhetoric; Sociology, Social Studies; Literary Criticism; Science; Literature: Classics; USA; History; Nuclear Physics; Power Resources - Nuclear; American - General; Physics; Atomic bomb; Nuclear Energy; Nuclear physics in literature
Description: "John Canaday analyzes a variety of texts produced by physicists before, during, and after the Second World War, including Niels Bohr's "The Quantum Postulate"; the Blegdamsvej Faust, a parody of Goethe's Faust that cast physicists as its principle characters; The Los Alamos Primer, the technical lectures used for training at Los Alamos; scientists' descriptions of their work and of the Trinity test; and Leo Szilard's post-war novella, The Voice of the Dolphins." -- Publisher's description